Their benefits are generally reduced by about 10 percent a month to pay off the emergency grant.

The fund immediately gave him an emergency grant of $2,000.

Wal-Mart is also giving emergency grants, typically of about $250, to some employees.

They qualified for a federal emergency grant of $1,226.

Tenants who fall behind in their rent can get emergency grants.

Most of the money goes to families and individuals who need a small push, an emergency grant to help them avert disaster.

And she has guided programs that help financially troubled college students receive small emergency grants.

Hoping to get help, she has applied to an arts organization for an emergency grant.

That plan includes $4 billion of "national emergency grants."

New York City typically gets close to $100 million annually in the emergency grants.